Man&#39;s apparel garment



oct. 28, 1952 A, p, RWAN MNS APPAREL GARMENT Filed March 18, 1950 FIG.

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ALFR ED F! RowAN Patented Oct. 28, Y1952 MAN S APPAREL GARMENT Alfred P. Rowan, Clayton, Mo., assgnor to Elder Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application March 18, 1950, Serial No. 150,518

3 Claims.

This invention relates in general to mens apparel garments and, more particularly, to a mans dress shirt.

For many years mens dress shirts have been constructed with a plurality of tails which are tucked under the belt and into the top of the trousers beneath the waist `band' so that the lower portion is held down by tight engagement of the belt and waist band of the trousers. It is common experience that such shirttails invariably become disarrayed and then work upwardly, out of the trousers, producing an unsightly bulge of material around the waist. In addition, the large section of material which is involved, is bulky and cumbersome and becomes uncomfortable, particularly in warm weather. Finally, this extra length of material is expensive since it is ordinarily of the same quality of fabric used for the same visible portions of the shirt.

It is, hence, a primary object of the present invention to provide a new and unique mans dress shirt which is simple and economical in construction and unusually comfortable in actual wear.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a mans dress shirt, which is devoid of tails and is, therefore, extremely comfortable to wear.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a mans dress shirt, which is provided at its lower perimeter with a retaining element adapted to hold the shirt snugly around the wearers body and within the upper portion of the wearers trousers in a comfortable and convenient manner.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mans dress shirt constructed in accordance with and embodying the present invention;

Figures 2 and 3 are fragmentary sectional views taken along lines 2--2 and 3 3, respectively, of Figure l; and

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view taken along lines 4-4 of Figure 3.

Referring now in more detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of the present invention, A designates a mans dress shirt, which comprises a body portion I, which may be provided with the usual and conventional type of shoulder 2 seams 2, and any appropriate style or design of collar 3. Set into the body portion in a conventional manner are sleeves 4 and a breast pocket 5. The shirt A is of the button-down-thefront type having a button strip 6 provided with a plurality of buttonholes 'I for engagement with buttons 8. y

The body portion I is of suificient length to extend down well over the hips vof the wearer and into the upper portion of the wearers trousers a substantial distance below the waist line thereof. At its lower margin or end the body portion is cut olf squarely and is turned up in a narrow fold fwhich is gathered and stitched by a line of stitches 9 to a double-folded band IIJ of elastic material such as jersey or the like. The band I0 is substantially shorter in length than the length of the lower portion of the shirt body I, so that it will be stretched slightly and under tension when disposed in operative position around the hips of the wearer.

At one end, the band I0 is provided with a pair of vertically spaced male snap-fastener elements II and at its other end the band Ill is similarly provided with a complementary pair of vertically spaced female snap-fastener elements I2 for engagement with the male fastener elements II when the ends of the band` are in overlying or closed position, as best seen in Figure 3.

It should be noted that the double-folded ends in the band I0 are left open or unsecured asl at I3, I3', as best seen in Figure 4, thus, providing a gripping flap to facilitate snapping and unsnapping of the fastener elements I I, I2, without imposing undue strain upon the material. Preferably, though not necessarily, the band I Il is provided at its end with a single ply of re-inforcing fabric I4 to prevent tearing out of the snap fastener elements under improper handling.

In any case, the open ended margins I3, I3', providing rom for insertion of the fingers to grip the band I0 close to the snap fastener element II, I2, materially facilitate the fastening and unfastening of said fastening elements without placing undue strain on the material.

It should be understood that changes and modications in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the mens apparel garment may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l.. .A mans dress shirt comprising a body-porgripping naps to facilitate manipulation of the` snap fasteners.

2. A mans dress shirt comprising a body portion consisting of two panels meeting in the .cena ter of the front thereof and respectively provided with buttons and buttonholes in the pro.

vision of a button-down-the-front closure, said body portion terminating in a straight bottom margin in the region of the hips of the wearer, said bottom margin being turned up inwardly upon itself so as to lie against the inwardly presented iaces of the panels in the formation of a free swinging flap, and an elastic band stitched to the inwardly presented face of said flap and being provided at its ends with snap fasteners for secureinent together as a body encircling band so that the upper edges thereof will be presented against the body of the wearer and the fabric of the shirt panels will be disposed on the outwardly presented face of the body encircling band whereby to counteract the tendency of the body encircling band to creep up around the body of the wearer. y.,

3. A mans dress shirt comprising a body portion consisting of two panels meeting in the center of the front thereof and respectively provided with buttons and buttonholes in the provision of a button-down-the-front closure, said body portion terminating in a straight bottom margin in the region of the hips ofthe wearer, said bottom margin being turned up inwardly upon itself so as to lie against the inwardly presented faces of the panels in the formation of a free swinging nap, and an elastic band stitched -to the linwardly presented face of said flap and being provided at its ends with snap fasteners for vsecurement together as a body encircling band so that the upper edges thereof will be presented against the body of the wearer and the fabric of the shirt panels will be disposed on the outwardly presented face of the body encircling band whereby to counteract the tendency of the body encircling band to creep up around the body of the wearer, said band being tubular in nature and being open at its ends in the provision of a finger-gripping flap to facilitate manipulation of the snap fasteners,

, ALFRED P. ROWAN.

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